As you are no doubt aware eIsrael launched an air strike against the eUnited Kingdom late on Monday night.

Unfortunately the UK were able to successfully repel us, not however before the campaign went ten rounds and absorbed a huge amount of their damage and COs [set mainly by private MU Royal Air Force]. The upshot was we were a great diversion, and without wishing to steal our ally’s thunder, provided a nice drain on the UK that contributed to Canada’s rout of them in Wales.

That said, I’m not going to claim we didn’t harbour a desire to actually land in the UK. The air strike when it opened provided the best opportunity we were probably ever likely to get to successfully land an air strike against a Sirius founder: Canada had opened their campaign against the UK, Finland had opened theirs, plus the UK had a resistance war they still had to subdue, so the time was ripe to click the attack button and begin Israel’s assault. Unfortunately the UK fought smart and prioritised their weakest attacker – us – and concentrated resources there.

What was Israel’s Objective

Our LETO allies Australia have established themselves in northern Norwegian regions as part of a rental arrangement with the Norwegians. Because of the UK-Norway conflict, the UK were encroaching on Australian-held regions, with the possible threat of a UK NE of Australia, which may have eventuated in Australia’s wipe. Although landing our air strike would have been the ideal outcome, the air strike’s broader focus was to move eUK attention from the continuation of the war with Norway and a possible attack on Australia to the wars opening in their backyard led by LETO ally Canada and backed up by Asgard and France.

Australia have invested a lot in securing their Norwegian regions, and eIsrael have fought by their side in this, so it was always paramount we do what we could to alleviate the threat posed by the UK. Whether the eUK were ever planning a direct attack against Australia only the UK know. But no plan today doesn’t mean there’s not one around the corner. The joint LETO-Asgard-France attack goes a way to ensure the eUK will be bogged down in pingpong wars within their own borders for the next couple weeks at least, allowing Australia to concentrate on quelling the RWs started in their regions by RH medal hunters.

Cost

A CO arm’s race was never on the cards. I set aside one hundred Gold to support our side with COs, but only ended up spending approximately fifty, by contrast the UK must have put up hundreds of Gold worth of CO – 100cc in D4 at one point, and on occasion that figure rose to 200cc in lower divisions. So, the drain we were able to create was pretty epic.

Division 4 CO

Some Thank Yous

First up, nice fighting eUK! Even though you’s did over rely on COs a bit too much :p

I’d also like to say a big thanks to everyone who showed up and contributed on the eIsrael side! Much appreciated! o/

Special thanks go to Canada and Kloppie for coordinating our COs through the night; and ofcourse MEK represented BIGDOGSTYLE as always, delivering well over 2 Billion damage in all divisions.

Yes, but we're not privy to eUK military plans until after they're executed. Also, governments change, the next may have targeted Australia. Whichever way you look at it, evicting the eUK from Scandinavia is just win/win from LETO and Asgard's pov.

I am just saying it's better to justify it by saying you were helping Asgard than to say that maybe one day the eUK may want to attack Australia. Otherwise it allows just as much justification for other countries to arbitrarily attack under the premise of possible future threat even with no indication of a threat.

For a start, we don't need to justify attacking a country of an enemy alliance, so if you choose not to believe Israel's objective was evict UK from Norway in order to remove the threat they posed our ally, then by all means. The fact is by helping our LETO ally Australia we were helping our LETO ally Canada too and our Asgard allies. Our motives perhaps were slightly different, but the object was almost identical, so meh.

"it allows [..] countries to arbitrarily attack under the premise of possible future threat even with no indication of a threat"

Australia are LETO, UK Sirius, Sirius damage goes wholesale against LETO in every war we fight everyday. So yeah, the 'threat' was there even if the actual NE law didn't materialise. Ultimately there's no reason why we should stay our hand and wait for said NE just so that we can feel "justified" in defending our own positions.

Just a couple of clarifications other then the one already pointed out about having no plans to Attack Australia prior to the NE's.

CO's were set by Royal Air Force not Royal Navy.

Canada we're given a free shot and your attack was actually a drain from the Sweden battle as that would of been priority #2 if not for Israel (#1 being Finland ofc). We're used to Canucks bouncing around inside the eUK and tbf they have internal problems that'll destroy them soon enough.

However, you did allow Sweden to take one of the Norwegian regions and ofc keep initative up to today so kudos for that.

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